Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0022926
TURKEY CREEK WRF, Pinson, AL: NPDES AL0022926 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 16Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
TURKEY CREEK WRF, held by Jefferson County Commission Environmental Services Department, holds NPDES permit AL0022926. EPA’s file records it issued April 22, 2015 and expiring April 30, 2020. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | TURKEY CREEK WRF |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Jefferson County Commission Environmental Services Department |
| NPDES ID | AL0022926 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | April 22, 2015 |
| Expiration date | April 30, 2020 |
| Address | Pinson, AL 35126 |
| Subwatershed | North Creek-Turkey Creek (HUC 031601110306) |
| Program components on file | POTW, Pretreatment |
| SIC | 4952 – Sewerage Systems |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 26Pollutants on file
- 16Under a numeric limit
- 24With a violation of any kind
- 6With an effluent exceedance
An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oil & Grease | 4 | 6 | 6 | December 31, 2018 | 260% over the limit |
| E. coli | 8 | 2 | 2 | January 31, 2024 | 78% over the limit |
| Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow] | 1 | 2 | 2 | August 31, 2008 | 99,999% over the limit |
| Coliform, fecal general | 0 | 7 | 1 | May 31, 2003 | 40% over the limit |
| Solids, suspended percent removal | 1 | 4 | 1 | January 31, 2016 | 16% over the limit |
| Oil and grease | 0 | 1 | 1 | December 31, 2013 | 107% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 12 | 24 | 0 | ||
| BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C] | 12 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N] | 12 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 12 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 8 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 8 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Phosphate, ortho [as P] | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| pH | 10 | 7 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 10 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Oxygen, dissolved [DO] | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| BOD, carb-5 day, 20 deg C, percent removal | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Hardness, total [as CaCO3] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Copper, dissolved [as Cu] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Lead, dissolved [as Pb] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, dissolved [as Ni] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, dissolved [as Zn] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Methylene blue active substances | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Solids, total dissolved | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chlorine, total residual | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.
Inspections, violations and enforcement
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES AL0022926.
Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.
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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.